3rd paragraph for WE rough draft

Zamyatin creates a conflict between the one state and the mephi in order to offer the idea that societies have a scale that balances security and civil liberties. The conflict Zamyatin creates is evident because of the word choice used by D-503, a member of the one state, while he is describing members of the mephi. D-503 has just entered the world outside the green wall, “In the clearing-people… Or-I don’t know what to call them-perhaps, more precisely, beings” (Zamyatin 155). Not knowing how to classify them, D-503 has just described these fellow humans as beings not as people but as beings. D-503 has just set himself and members of the one state as greater because they are people, which separates the two societies. This displays a conflict between them, since another society would classify the other as less than them. Depending on what is happening or has happened in societies, especially conflict, the balance scale may tip too much towards security or towards balance. Zamyatin attempts to give this idea of balance in society by creating a scale. D-503 has just announced his opinion on madness after someone in the audience regarded the rebellion as madness, “‘Yes, yes, madness! The sooner the better! And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential-I know it’” (Zamyatin 158). Members of the one state must be taught that security and protection are essential for humans to survive, or else the people would stand up for individual rights rather than societal security. This thought is imbued in their minds, it has become part of them and D-503 is stating that the people must lose their minds in order to rebel against the one state (need for security) to fight for civil liberty. Zamyatin is attempting to communicate the idea that in order to fight for liberty, one must give up the need for security, which assists in the idea that security and civil liberty are balance, equal and opposite. This idea of a balance scale contributes to a warning against having a total secure and protected society, since then civil rights would need to be abandoned or heavily restricted.